Primary angioplasty or thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction? [2] (multiple letters)

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9361, 2003, Pages 965-966

  Auer, Johann ^a   Berent, Robert ^a   Weber, Thomas ^a   Eber, Bernd ^a   Melandri, Giovanni ^b   Armstrong, Paul W ^c   Massel, David ^d   Keeley, Ellen C ^e   Boura, Judith A ^f   Grines, Cindy L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MAGNESIUM; STREPTOKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037443895     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12746-8     Document Type: Letter

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